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...facility has treated, up to 70% have used diet pills, often popping a variety of them. "It's just like drug abuse," he says. Even pills that do not contain fenfluramine can pose health risks. Some contain diuretics or laxatives that can cause skin rashes, diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome. "I've encountered women who are taking diuretics without being aware of it," says Dr. Lee. "They lose water and with it, potassium and other vital body-regulating electrolytes." Reduced potassium can cause an irregular heartbeat, even coma. "What can be O.K. for a month can cause serious damage over...
...Much of the story is devoted to Nariman's confinement and its effects on his daughter's once contented family. Medical costs take food off the table. One of the sons must sleep on the balcony. Then there are the realities of bodily decrepitude. Bowel movements and bedpans, stinks and sores become not only a helpless old man's cross to bear but a burden for those who love him most...
...only scientific evidence against childhood vaccines comes from Dr. Andrew Wakefield, formerly at the Royal Free Hospital in London. His theory is that autism stems from a severe immune reaction to something in the vaccine. In February he published a paper showing that immunized children with autism and bowel disorders have higher levels of measles particles in their intestinal tissue than normal children do. The evidence is not entirely persuasive, however; measles particles in the tissues do not necessarily mean that the virus--or the vaccine--causes autism...
...instance, babies have symbolic sight). Symbols have the effect of telling you what to think. Instead, Columbus Day should tell us what to think about. This October, we were thinking about boxcutters and anthrax and the little pocket of utter immorality in Afghanistan. This is the kind of historical bowel-loosener that makes Columbus (or logging in Alaska or animal cruelty or violence on television) seem like a pretty pathetic target for protest. Now that Sept. 11 is the official symbol of moral anachronism, Columbus Day can finally claim its rightful place in the constellation of holidays as a celebration...
...music scene of the late 70s or just living every arty New York kid’s fantasy—pretending to be Lou Reed and slumming through the bohemian world of the Lower East Side—the Strokes make exciting and brash music in spite of the bowel movements of an industry that produces and reproduces Christina Aguileras and Fred Dursts. It feels good to get something back every once in awhile, even at the cost of nostalgia or rock journalists taking the piss...